well on monday, as on most mondays an any given day for that matter, the world was different. This monday was significant because we had over the weekend lost Maurice Blanchot(in Le Monde) and Robert K. Merton(in NYT), whose work may seem unfamiliar to some until you read it. both of these authors have lent significant marks of their existence to contemporary world, and while I'm not one for hero worship or nostalgia, I do believe in giving people their due and these two have much due, or so I claim, in both the past and future of internet research but both in significantly different ways. In short, I've seen them cited in people's work that are on this list, so I thought I'd let people know if they had not yet heard. on another note, i wouldn't have known of this except for the internet. I heard of Merton from Kieren Healy's blog out of arizona before the nyt obit. and Blanchot from Multitudes, which is a french list in relation to its academic journal.